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  • Cinépolis to host 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai

    Cinépolis to host 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai

    MUMBAI: Cinépolis India will be hosting the Mumbai chapter of the 6th Jagran Film Festival at its Fun Cinemas property in Andheri from 28 September – 4 October.

     

    Presenting films from across genres, countries, languages and eras, the festival brings forward diverse and extreme cinematic talent on one single platform. 

     

    Cinépolis business head – strategy Devang Sampat said, “The Jagran Film Festival has been entertaining and educating the masses by spreading a culture of cinema appreciation. Cinepolis this year participated in the festival in Lucknow, Patna, Ludhiana, Ranchi and going forward we shall be strategising to host more such festivals and ensure Cinepolis loyalist get to watch movies from all over the world. On the other hand, we as exhibitors also become a platform to bring together – filmmakers, distributors, audience through medium of Cinema and connect life, culture, art & emotions that surfaced during the film.”

     

    Both Indian and foreign language films will be screened at the festival in 13 categories. A special non-competitive section called ‘Happiness Spirit’ will see a cluster of 10-15 select films that will weave in ‘happiness of the human spirit’ as a common theme. 

    The competitive sections include Indian Showcase, Debut Directors, Jagran Shorts, Top Shorts, World Panorama and Cinema of the Sellers category.

    The best films in these categories will be decided upon by the jury comprising Hariharan, who leads the panel along with Pooja Bhatt, Mahesh Aney, Udit Narayan and A Sreekar. The awards will be conferred across numerous categories like Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Short Film, Best Debut Director and many more.

     

    “It gives us immense pride to host an event of this stature. An important aspect of the festival is to generate a discussion on the various aspects of cinema and its impact on society. This will be aided by the presence of the cast and crew of a select few films being screened to drive insightful discussions between the artistes & filmmakers and the audience,” Sampat added.

     

  • Ali Fazal replaces Arjun Rampal in Pooja Bhatt’s ‘Love Affair’

    Ali Fazal replaces Arjun Rampal in Pooja Bhatt’s ‘Love Affair’

    MUMBAI: Actor Ali Fazal seems to be in the Bhatts’ favourite list. Last seen in Mahesh Bhatt’s Khamoshiyan, the actor has now replaced actor Arjun Rampal in filmmaker Pooja Bhatt’s next production venture titled Love Affair.

     

    Written and directed by Soni Razdan, the movie also stars Kalki Koechlin and Gulshan Devaiah along with Monica Dongra. It is jointly being produced by Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series and Bhatt’s Fish Eye Network.

     

    The film is about infidelity in marriage. Fazal will be playing the husband married to Koechlin, whereas Devaiah will be seen as the lover. Dongra is playing the role of the sister. It is rumoured that the film is loosely based on the real life case of 1959, probably the first passion crime reported in the pages of crime.

     

    Confirming the news Fazal said, “Yes I have been approached for the part in what I call the wee hours of the movie’s commencement, to replace Arjun Rampal due to some issues. I read the part and said yes immediately. It’s a challenging role, so I am still waking from the reality of it. Moreover I have already immersed in the looks and costumes of the film because there is very little time to prepare.”

  • Pooja Bhatt’s Jism 3 to feature Maldivian crooner

    Pooja Bhatt’s Jism 3 to feature Maldivian crooner

    Pooja Bhatt’s Jism 2 had left viewers in a state of shock with none other than Sunny Leone playing the lead role in the film.

     

    Now working on the third installment of the Jism franchise, Pooja has apparently roped in Maldivian crooner Unoosha, aka Kiddy, for the film’s music.

     

    Unoosha who is currently in the city recorded a track yesterday, 27 August, at Tanay Studios. With this, Unoosha becomes the first individual from Maldives to be associated with Bollywood.

     

    While the track in question will also feature Ali Azmat and K.K. with lyrics about making new beginnings, the song is titled ‘Kahaan Se Karen Shuru, Yahaan Se’ and is composed by Arko Pravo Mukherjee.

  • Pooja Bhatt’s Bad lives up to its name

    Pooja Bhatt’s Bad lives up to its name

    MUMBAI: Filmmaker and actress Pooja Bhatt’s film Bad, currently being shot in Rajasthan, has been facing a lot of trouble coming its way. The film is perhaps living up to its name, with the National Students Union of India (NSUI) activists disrupting the shooting at the central jail on 23 July.

    She expressed her anger in a tweet saying, “50-75 ppl (sic) claiming to be from NSUI have barged into Central Jail Udaipur shouting slogans against me threatening to shut down my shoot.”

    “If I were alone I would tackle them HEADON! But I happen to have a unit of 100. I am responsible for equipment as well,” says another tweet from the filmmaker.

    The protestors, who were demanding that the shooting be shut down, alleged the private security guards of Pooja Bhatt hit them when they were protesting. They gave a complaint to Surajpole police station, which is being examined.

    The NSUI leader Deepak Mewada, who led the protest, said they were upset with Bhatt’s behavior with Udaipur superintendent of Police, Hariprasad Sharma, who had allegedly misbehaved with the film’s crew on Saturday (20 July). Sharma denied the charges.

    The shooting resumed after the Saturday tiff was resolved by District Magistrate Vikas Bhale, who also reportedly appears in the film. Bhale, on his part, said he wanted the shooting to go on because it was good for tourism in the city.

    However, with student body elections scheduled in August, it seems the NSUI had its eyes on its own constituency rather than the crew of the Randeep Hooda starrer film.

  • Pooja Bhatt to make film on late singer Bhupen Hazarika

    Pooja Bhatt to make film on late singer Bhupen Hazarika

    MUMBAI: Filmmaker and actress Pooja Bhatt will direct a movie on the late poet, composer and singer Bhupen Hazarika.

    Bhatt‘s next film titled ‘Dhumuha‘ is based on the life of Hazarika and his relationship with the filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi who directed several films like Rudaali, Darmiyaan, Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence and Chingaari.

    The legendary singer who died on 5 November 2011 was awarded with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Sangeet Natak Akademi, India‘s The National Academy for music, Dance and Drama.

    In 2012, Hazarika was posthumously conferred India‘s second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan by President.

    The film will commence its shooting from 31 January 2014 after Lajmi gets ready with the script.

  • Pooja Bhatt teams up with Ponty Chadha for Jism 3 and Cabaret

    Pooja Bhatt teams up with Ponty Chadha for Jism 3 and Cabaret

    MUMBAI: After the success of Jism 2 that meant a successful collaboration of Pooja Bhatt and Fish Eye Network Pvt Limited and Ponty Chadha and Wave Industries Pvt. Limited, the two have got together to produce Jism 3 and follow it up to make Cabaret.

    Jism 2 is a complex love triangle where a woman is trapped between her long lost emotions for her ex-lover Kabir and Ayaan‘s growing fondness for her which she too, at times, reciprocates. Later, the film goes to show how porn star Izna kills her emotions for Kabir to save the nation.

    While Jism 3 will release in the winter of 2013, Cabaret will release soon after. The cast and credits of both the films will be finalised soon.

  • Balaji prepones release date of Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum to 27 July

    Balaji prepones release date of Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum to 27 July

    MUMBAI: Balaji Motion Pictures has preponed the release date of its Riteish Deshmukh and Tusshar Kapoor-starrer, Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum. The film, originally scheduled to release on August 3, will now hit the screens on 27 July.

    Said Balaji Motion Pictures CEO Tanuj Garg, “Kyaa Super Kool is a keenly awaited comedy and we‘re glad to pre-pone its release for everyone who‘s been waiting for it. It makes business sense to have a clean weekend with no other film in the interest of maximizing business.”

    Though Balaji announced that Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum would release on 2 August a couple of months ago, Vishesh Films, the makers of Jism 2, decided to come out on the same date. Following a rational discussion between the two camps, Jism 2 was preponed to 27 July as both sides agreed that both films being keenly awaited sequels, should not eat into each other‘s business by releasing on the same day.

    Surprisingly, days after the Bhatts’ decision, director Pooja Bhatt went ahead and announced that her film would release on 3 August, as per the original plan. Not wanting an unnecessary clash, Balaji preponed the film’s release to 27 July.

  • Nanavati murder case on celluloid after 48 years

    Nanavati murder case on celluloid after 48 years

    MUMBAI: After a span of 48 years, a film based on the Nanavati murder case is being planned.

    In the real-life story of crime and passion, Cdr. Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati, on his return from an assignment one day in 1959, was outraged to find that the British-born wife he adored had allowed herself to be seduced by his friend of 15 years, Prem Ahuja.

    After being talked out of committing suicide by his repentant wife, a mother of three, he went to the naval base, picked up a revolver and headed for his friend‘s house. There he confronted him and asked if he intended to marry his wife and accept their children.

    Philanderer Ahuja is reported to have retorted that he could not marry every woman he slept with. This resulted in a scuffle between the two men in which Ahuja got killed.

    Despite a disclaimer at the outset, the black and white film Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke produced by Sunil Dutt and directed by R.K. Nayyar was a re-play of the Nanavati case. Only, the end was altered to show that the ‘guilt-ridden‘ wife (Leela Naidu) feels ‘defiled‘ for having slept with another man and dies in her husband‘s (Sunil Dutt) arms in the courtroom after he is pronounced ‘not guilty‘. The film was released in 1963.

    The new film to be produced by Pooja Bhatt‘s Fisheye Network and Dino Morea‘s Clockwork Films, is to be directed by Soni Razdan. She had earlier directed Nazar that starred Pakistani actress Meera, Ashmit Patel and Koel Purie.